XkbOptions in xorg.conf being ignored (F10)

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 15:24:47 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 21:40 -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> I'm trying to get an xorg.conf to work in F10.  One of the stanzas
> that was created by livna-config-display (yes, I'm using the nasty
> closed-source nvidia driver :-)  is:
> 
> # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
> <snip>
> Section "InputDevice"
> # keyboard added by rhpxl
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
>         Option      "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"     # <== added by me
> EndSection
> 
> The last line was added by me.
> 
> For some reason X, which I start with "startx", is ignoring the
> XkbOptions.  I think this has something to do with the new "evdev"
> driver stuff but I don't understand it well enough to know how to
> proceed.  Would someone tell me the "fix"?  Or tell me what to provide
> for help.  Thanks.
> 
> Dean.
> 

Known issue.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473802

- Gilboa




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